This is actually one of the easier reviews I have had to write. If you own the four volume set of Philippine Marine Mol-lusks by G.T. Poppe, then you MUST buy this index by Tom Rice. Even if you do not have all four volumes, you still need this index. The Poppe tomes are superb in their coverage of Philippine mol-lusks, but they are massive volumes. If you want large color plates to show detail and you want coverage of the many thousands of mollusks found in the Philippines, then you end up with large heavy books. This means you do not want to pull volume one out and leaf through it only to discover that the cone you were searching for is not covered in this volume - cones are in volume two. I have gone through this process a number of times and found it frustrating, but decided it was an okay price to pay considering the value of the books. Tom Rice must have also found this an irritant and he came up with the solution - an index to all four volumes.
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